How NordCloud Cut Infra Costs 34% With a GitOps Rebuild

Client: NordCloud Systems, Sweden — cloud infrastructure for the Nordic logistics sector.

Challenge: A Kubernetes footprint that had scaled past what manual operations could safely support, with rising compute spend from over-provisioned, idle namespaces and no per-team cost visibility.

Engagement: Distera Labs ran a two-week Cloud Assessment, then delivered the rebuild as a 10-week Platform Engineering engagement: GitOps-managed multi-cluster architecture, per-team ResourceQuotas tied to actual usage, and Karpenter-based node autoscaling replacing static node pools.

Outcome:

• 34% reduction in monthly infrastructure spend, driven by right-sized quotas and autoscaling that scales node pools down outside business hours.
• Deploy frequency moved from twice-weekly batches to on-demand, reviewed merges.
• The platform now carries a Managed Service retainer with Distera Labs for ongoing observability and cost optimization.

"We stopped guessing at capacity and started measuring it. The Distera team treated our on-call engineers' pain as the actual spec, not an afterthought." — Engineering Lead, NordCloud Systems